Question

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Answer 1

Answer:

When it says, "...made me think of pictures I had seen when a child, of Gulliver, tied down by the pygmies on that island."

Explanation:

The definition of an allusion is: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Answer 2

the author refers to gulliver in order to compare the fathers helplessness to the capture of a giant - APEX